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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

Whither Social Mention?

by on September 7, 2011 in RSS, technology, cloudcomputing, monitoring, socialmedia, search, reputationmanagement

Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is [...]

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What are people saying about… the iPad, iPhone and iPod?

by on January 29, 2010 in blogs, brands, monitoring, RSS, search, strategy, technology, Twitter, visualisation

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past week, you’ll know all about the iPad, Apple’s new wunderkit – what it has, what it has not, what it’s for, what it’s not for, and so on. Fortunately, the term ‘iPad’ is very quick and easy to search for. So, it’s a doddle to [...]

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What are people saying about… Bono?

by on January 4, 2010 in cloudcomputing, monitoring, reputationmanagement, research, RSS, socialmedia, technology, visualisation

Last week I looked at how Eurostar were faring, by putting together a dashboard in Netvibes which is powered by my social media search engine in the background. The results were interesting: we could see how the anger spread quickly through social media channels – and now, you can see how it’s waned quickly. No [...]

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Dear Yahoo Pipes…

by on December 22, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia

… it’s so hard writing this blog post I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll begin at the beginning. When we first met I didn’t think you were anything special. You had a nice interface and cute little modules, but I wasn’t bowled over, I must admit. No. It took a while, but then [...]

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If it’s easy, it’s probably wrong

by on December 10, 2009 in cloudcomputing, computing, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology

Owing to a bit of downtime – clients disappearing instead of continuing projects, yes I agree, it’s very rude isn’t it – I’ve been fighting with Yahoo Pipes and Netvibes to try and get some sort of effective monitoring solution together. In theory it’s pretty simple. Yahoo Pipes lets you do all sorts of fancy [...]

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Yahoo Pipe to filter for British English

by on March 27, 2009 in RSS, stuff, technology

Why are there so many Americans online? It’s probably not that much of a puzzler. There’s a lot of them around anyway, and they’re often several years ahead of Old Europe technologically. And they do like to talk. But that doesn’t help people like me when I need to monitor UK traffic. Sure, you can [...]

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Tuttle the third

by on March 13, 2009 in socialmedia

So this was my third Tuttle. By amazing coincidence, my ex-colleague and glamorous PR Week pin-up Mat Morrison (mediaczar) was there too, and by even more amazing coincidence, it was also his Tuttle #3. I happen to know that Mat has a thing about the number three so hopefully he took pleasure from that, in [...]

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Yahoo Pipes: you’ve got to go there to come back

by on October 7, 2008 in cloudcomputing, computing, monitoring, RSS, technology, visualisation

If anyone’s been following my Twitter feed recently they’ll know that I’ve been getting to grips with Yahoo Pipes. I think it’s an amazing tool and offers the tantalising possibility of creating a wholly modular monitoring system, effectively through programming-like routines which, through a neat graphical interface, largely remove the need for knowing how to [...]

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Automation’s great – but I trust humans more

by on September 7, 2008 in monitoring, RSS, technology

Repeatedly I’ve found myself being let down by the latest and greatest RSS tools. I’m not really sure how I can get around this problem, other than by being constantly vigilant – to the extent that it’s almost easier to forget RSS altogether and just monitor ‘by hand’. This is how it should work I’m [...]

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